The computer modelling of development proposals : a routine part of development control

This paper describes and discusses the aims and practicalities involed in the computer modelling of contentious development applications becoming accepted as a routine part of the processes of development control.  It uses three case studies frawn from the University of Adelaide's work with the City of Adelaide in Australia to delineate the role of 3D computer models of proposed new buildings and their immediate surroundings in the public understanding of the streetscape, neighbourhood context, overshadowing and overlooking implications of the proposals.